Child&#39;s playhouse.



L. T. YODER.

CHILD'S PLAYHOUSB. APPLIOATION FILED JAILQB, 1912. RENEWED MAY 14, 1913.

1,078,027. Patented o 1 ,1913.

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LORENZO T. YODER, OF PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHILD S PLAYI-IOUSEQ Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

Application filed. .Tanuary 26, 1912, Serial No. 673,551 Renewed May 14, 1913. Serial No. 767,721.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I'ioRnNzo .T. Yonnn, a citizen of the United States, residing, at Pittsburgh inthe county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Childrens Playhouses, of which specification. I 1 i My invention relates to play-houses for children, and its object is to provide a portable rectangular structure which has three walls, preferably a front and two ends and which may have its open rear side against the following is a a vertical wall or other fixed vertical struc ture so as to form a rectangular play-room or house. The portable walls may be readily assembled and taken apart. They are each made of a light vertical wooden frame-work covered with figured oil-cloth or paper and provided with a suitable door or doors and windows.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention applied to a wall, the frame-work being in part provided with a covering or siding. Fig. 2 is a section showing the manner of applying the top corner-blocks which look the tops of the ends to the sides and at the same time provide an ornamental finish. Fig. 3 is a bottom view of a corner-block. Fig. 4: is a section on the line IVIV, Fig. 1; and Fig. 5, a section on the line VV, Fig. 1.

On the drawings, 1 designates the front frame-work, and 2 and 3, the end frames. The front frame has the horizontal strip 4 and the top horizontal strip 5, these strips being connected at their ends to the vertical corner strips 6 by screws or nails. The strips 4;, 5, and 6 are narrow and form a light vertical rectangular figure to support the other parts of the front frame-work 1. To one of the corner strips 6, I connect the wooden door frame 7 which has its lower end just above the strip d and its upper end just below the horizontal strips 8 secured to the corner strips 6. I

9 is a vertical strip secured to the strips 4:, 5, and 8 so as to form a casing for the free vertical edge of the door-frame 12. Between the strip 9 and the end 3 I provide the two spaced vertical strips 10 which are secured to the strips 4, 5, and 8.

11 is a horizontal strip secured to the right-hand strip 6 and the strips 9 and 10.

The ends of the window-frame 12 are Y oil-cloth" I figured to tobe satisfactory.

strips 13 arranged to form rectangular spaces resembling real windows. The frame 1 and the door-frame 7 are covered with any suitable material 14:, in imitation of the exterior of a house, but I have found represent brick or tile The end frame-work 2 1s of light wood also and has the horizontal bottom strip 4 and the horizontal top strip 5 connected at their ends by the vertical corner strips 6*. One corner strip 6 is connected by light removable fastening, such as screws, to the left-hand corner strip 6. The corner strips 6 and 6 are all of the same height so that the strips 5 and 5 may be at the same level. The adjacent ends of the strips 5 and 5 7 and, consequently, of the frame-works 1 and 2 are held in their proper angular relation and prevented from separating by means of the corner block or key 15 which rests on the corner formed by the meeting of the front and end frame-works l and 2 and has in its lower edge or bottom an L-shaped groove 16 adapted to fit over, or receive the up per edges of the said strips 5 and 5 at their meeting angle.

18 is a block fitting in the angle between the lower ends of the front and end frames. The block has the metal strips 19 provided with down-turned flanges 20 which interlock with the upturned flanges 22 on the metal strips 21 secured to the lower ends of the corner strips 6 and 6 I have not shown the right-hand corner provided with a corner-block 18, but it may be understood to have one. It will be seen that the block 18 with the interlocking strips 19 and 21 holds the front framework 1 just as the frameworks 1 and 2 are connected, 15 representing the corner-block or key connecting the frame-works 1 and 3.

17 represents a fixed wall agamst which 13 f'housewhichcan be "readily assembled and may fbe placed out of doors against the fence, or'theside of the house-or other building. V is seen that I have provided :a play-- taken apart, quickly moved from -:place ito v '-p1aee, and be "set-up A against a al1,-fenoe, or

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"the like "where ohildren may arrange their -furri itu're and toys to suit their-fancy. :JI claime p F'In {a -'c'hild'ren"s p1ay-house, a vertical fro ntframe avertical end frame abutting the front edge of the middle frame and making an angle therewith, a corner block 'fittingthe meeting angle between the lower ends-ofthe frames, metal strips secured to the corner block and having each a horizontal flange parallel With the sides of the said angle, and spaced from and lying'opposite to theedgesiof the' block, :and -,a :metal strip secured to the bottom of each frame and having a flange =lying' bet-Ween the adacentcorner block and the corresponding flange secured to ithe said block.

:Signed :at Pittsburgh, Pa, =this 23rd day i'ofJanuar-m'A. D. 1912. I

* ,LORENZO'TL Y ODER.

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ALICE E. DUFF,

ELvA STANEIELE. 

